PIERRE LEROUX WEB NAME NOT FOR SALE

Why would the Progressive Conservatives want to buy the website of a man with the name of Pierre Leroux? He doesn’t know for sure himself but he’s already declared that his website is not for sale.

The other Pierre Leroux sent Pierre Leroux in Russell Township an email, April 7, about a curious email request he received from a man who identified himself as +BTPO 5VDLFS DBNQBJHO manager for a candidate in the Ontario provincial election. The other -FSPVY TUBUFE UIBU IF XBT BTLFE JG IF XPVME either sell or rent the use of his website domain name, pierreleroux.com, for two months, up until the June 7 Ontario election date. He pasted the French text of that email, XJUI BO &OHMJTI USBOTMBUJPO JO UIF FNBJM IF sent to Leroux in Russell Township.

“I don’t approve of this method which aims to confuse (political) messages through ‘pirating’ your name on the Internet,” stated the other Leroux, adding that he refused the offer.

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Leroux, the Liberal candidate for the Glengarry-Prescott-Russell riding in the Ontario election, expressed disappointment about the whole situation during a phone interview, May 28.

“I am surprised in the sense that this is my first provincial election campaign,” he said. “At the municipal level, I never FYQFSJFODFE BOZUIJOH MJLF UIJT * BN IBQQZ to see that the person (the other Pierre Leroux) wasn’t the type of person to allow that sort of thing to happen.”

Leroux noted that at the time he received the email from his counterpart, he was not yet confirmed as the Liberal candidate for the GPR. That didn’t happen until the GPR Liberal Association held its April 14 confirmation meeting.